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The aim of this article was to provide a focused commentary on the development of stem-cell therapies in burn care, rather than a systematic review. With this in mind, PubMed was searched for...
While not a comprehensive list, the following can be helpful as first steps to help you in determining the wound aetiology..
The NIS database, developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), is maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). It is the largest publicly-available...
Contact allergies can occur frequently in patients with CLUs, even in those with a short duration of ulcerative disease, despite the use of new advanced dressings.8 The chronicity of venous...
At our institution, we used negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) systems following the application of the final wound closure with STSG, similar to Gonzaga et al.
This issue of Wound Central was complied by our guest editor.
A 47-year-old immunocompetent woman with no risk factors, who had severe back pain due to her surgical career and had undergone treatment with traditional Chinese medicine for several months. She...
EPUAP Classification of Pressure Ulcer Grading1,2.
Dumville et al.12 examined how debridement in leg ulcers of different aetiologies may reduce the bacterial burden in wounds. Leg ulcer patients were randomised (n=267) in three different groups...
The concept of biofilm in human health and disease is now universally accepted.7 Biofilms are communities of bacteria, that have diverse characteristics, these include communication with other...
Existing technologies directed to the treatment of biofilms are intended to either penetrate the EPS that encapsulates the bacteria in a biofilm, or use dispersing agents, which typically target a...
Wound infection is defined as the presence of microbes in the wound, which multiply and cause a host reaction either locally, in surrounding tissues, or systemically.6 This host reaction is manifested...
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